tanks not using cooldowns?

[Ashkendor]

Sorry, there's a strategy to using cooldowns effectively.

If all tanks followed your "strategy" for cooldown use, I'd kick a lot more tanks from dungeons. xD

They had less HP; I also have a ton of experience. Less HP means you had to learn to use your cooldowns more because you had much less soaking and padding to take damage. My tank gained almost 7k more health; which means I don't have to use cool-downs as much anymore.

Except stuff hits harder now to compensate for our increased HP pools, making the change a wash overall.

This is especially evident in raids, so I guess I can't be too surprised that you didn't notice.

Strength tanks were much more skilled then vitality tanks in almost every aspect; since they "HAD" to use cool-downs to survive. I feel like the vitality change lowered the skillcap for tanks.

Back then all VIT did was inflate your HP pool beyond needed levels. You didn't need any more HP than you got from your Strength accessories because nothing really hit hard enough to warrant more. The HP are quite needed now, though.

I've been tanking since 2004. When did you start tanking in games?

This is all pretty common sense stuff too...

1995. You were probably in diapers when I started tanking. It's moot anyway since tanking differs somewhat from game to game. You don't tank anything harder than Expert dungeons in this game (you're quite adamant in other threads about not doing raids/EX primals), and that's why people take exception to you throwing your two gil around as if you know what you're talking about.